Cheers for Monday, Jan. 28, 2013

Monday

Jan 28, 2013 at 2:00 AM

To Sullivan County legislators, municipalities and several local organizations for exploring how to recycle tons of organic waste. The joint effort will result in a plan to convert the waste into fertilizer, keeping it out of the Seneca Meadows landfill. According to Bill Cutler, the county's recycling coordinator, about 17,000 tons of organic waste is taken to the landfill each year. A few months ago, Ulster County began its recycling pilot program. To supporters of St. Joseph's Catholic School in Kingston for its spirited, energized efforts to save the school after the Archdiocese of New York placed it on a list of 22 schools that will be closed this spring. Families of the school have decided to focus their energies on developing a plan to support the school as an independent facility. Paul DeLisio, who heads the school's finance committee, said the group has done its homework and is ready to move forward. He points out that the Archdiocese may have used old data to decide the school's fate. Enrollment is up and dependency on subsidies from the Archdiocese are non-existent. "We never got a dime from the Archdiocese, nor do we expect to," DeLisio said. To Habitat Newburgh for honoring the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by helping to build one of five Habitat houses planned in the East Parmenter Street Neighborhood Development section of the city. The volunteers are helping to build even more momentum throughout the city in efforts to refurbish homes and beautify the Newburgh block by block. For the smiles on the children's and seniors' faces when Caroline comes to visit them in hospitals and nursing homes. The small brown-and-white Yorkshire terrier has seven years of experience under her collar as a therapy dog. She is owned by Debra Herlic, a professor at Mount Saint Mary College. Caroline joined other therapy dogs to bring much-needed smiles to the faces of grief-stricken families in Newtown following the Sandy Hook tragedy. That's how professor Herlic spent her winter break.

To Sullivan County legislators, municipalities and several local organizations for exploring how to recycle tons of organic waste. The joint effort will result in a plan to convert the waste into fertilizer, keeping it out of the Seneca Meadows landfill. According to Bill Cutler, the county's recycling coordinator, about 17,000 tons of organic waste is taken to the landfill each year. A few months ago, Ulster County began its recycling pilot program.

To supporters of St. Joseph's Catholic School in Kingston for its spirited, energized efforts to save the school after the Archdiocese of New York placed it on a list of 22 schools that will be closed this spring. Families of the school have decided to focus their energies on developing a plan to support the school as an independent facility. Paul DeLisio, who heads the school's finance committee, said the group has done its homework and is ready to move forward. He points out that the Archdiocese may have used old data to decide the school's fate. Enrollment is up and dependency on subsidies from the Archdiocese are non-existent. "We never got a dime from the Archdiocese, nor do we expect to," DeLisio said.

To Habitat Newburgh for honoring the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by helping to build one of five Habitat houses planned in the East Parmenter Street Neighborhood Development section of the city. The volunteers are helping to build even more momentum throughout the city in efforts to refurbish homes and beautify the Newburgh block by block.

For the smiles on the children's and seniors' faces when Caroline comes to visit them in hospitals and nursing homes. The small brown-and-white Yorkshire terrier has seven years of experience under her collar as a therapy dog. She is owned by Debra Herlic, a professor at Mount Saint Mary College. Caroline joined other therapy dogs to bring much-needed smiles to the faces of grief-stricken families in Newtown following the Sandy Hook tragedy. That's how professor Herlic spent her winter break.